Graton 21st Feby
Dear Sir,
The proofs can be sent by the mail as well
as any way, though I send them back by the
"virtuous man." That I may also get rid of all
the M.P which I have finished. Here are all
a hundred and fifty sheets. I shall vend, etc
in a few days, perhaps twenty more including
my preface and the few pages of the book which remain to
be translated.
As I find that two pages of my handwriting (in
which the greater part of the book lies) make
one of your print, I think the volume will
contain about four hundred pages. I think I have
already cut out all I ought, but may, in
proofs, see more passages that could be disposed
with. You will not praise my M.S. any more, but
we are soon to remove that as so much is to
be done, that neither my brother nor myself
have time to copy. I am desirous to get
this off my hands as fast as I can, without
slighting it.
As to the proofs the expression "some title" corresponds
with Eckermanns meaning I believe. "Have you
betrachten gewissermapen als afer Schmuck" is the
phrase
tranquil hour will do, standing for any period
of time. The title counsellor is among; the words
Justiz, - learnt I had confounded with ??
Justiz rath. It should be officer of Justice
strictly; If you think it of any consequence
please substitute the right phrase. I expect
the chief trouble throughout will be with
titles of men and books as, when I could
not translate them to my mind, I have
left them in German. Perhaps it would
have been better not, but such combinations words
as Upper - first - counsillor look very formidabe
in English.
As to the use of capitals - I have been so desirous
of avoiding that copious sprinkling of
great As and Bs and Cs that seems to
mark the pages of every body who has
learned a little German that, perhaps,
I have fallen into the opposite extreme.
But is it not equally correct to smite
I met at the coffee house an officer of the
Marines, as
I met at the Coffee house an Officer of the
Marines-
Please mark every thing you see amiss; as I
am desirous of making the publication of this book
The means of drilling myself in details which,
naturally, have not before attracted my
attention.
Please give my loev to my friend, Mrs
Ripley, and ask her if she will not
welcome me to the neighborhood of Boston.
I shall be only five miles out, and shall
see you often, that is if you do not prop all
your summers on lakes.
Truly yours L. M. Fuller.
Will you do me the favor to send the
other parcel to Mr Sturgis's?
"In the year ninety" was the
way the good Dr had, it, and
I retained it with other inperfect
phrases of his, because they give, at least
to me, the feeling of an almost quaint
simplicity, 1790 - is, of course, the date
Revd George Ripley,
